Jane Hirshfield Quotes

Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience.

My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.

There's no more important consumer product today than a cell phone.

I never really started to carry a cellular phone until it was small enough so I could put it on my belt and not even feel it was there.

When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'

Cell phones have gotten so small, you can't tell who's a cell phone user and who's a schizophrenic.

I sprung you because I've got a message for you" "doesn't your family own a cell phone company?" "only a little one

I think most people in the developed world would admit to carrying some sort of handheld device, whether it's a laptop or a cell phone, at all times.

I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.

I don't write letters anymore.

I don't know what I would do without my smartphone as I am on the go all day.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

Change is strong, but habit is strong too; and you cannot change the old for new, like a garment.

I used to have a BlackBerry. E-mail and text messaging and all those things that make life so much easier now.

Today's world requires a different leadership style - more collaboration and teamwork, including using Web 2.0 technologies. If you had told me I'd be video blogging and blogging, I would have said, 'No way.' And yet our 20-somethings in the company really pushed me to use that more.

I am probably one of the last people on the planet without a cell phone.

Phones are interesting objects. Sometimes you wish they just didn't exist.

I don't have a cell phone.

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

The stream of passing years is like a river with people being carried along in the current. Some are swept along, protesting, fighting all the way, trying to swim back up the stream, longing for the shores that they have passed, clutching at anything to retard their progress, frightened by the onward rush of the strong current and in danger of being overwhelmed by the waters. Others go with the current freely, trusting themselves to the buoyancy of the water.

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

Everyones always asking me when Apple will come out with a cell phone. My answer is, Probably never.

I don't see anything wrong with a cell phone. That's great. You have a flat tire in the middle of the night; it works better than digging in your pocket for a quarter and looking for a payphone eight miles down the road.

I think of Twitter as a messaging system that you didn't know you needed until you had it. Think about when cell phones first started coming out. People said, "Why would I carry my phone around?" And now you'll drive back to your house thirty miles if you forget your cell phone.

To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say yes is a better thing.